Last week was the SharePoint Best Practice Conference (BPC) held in London, organized by Combined Knowledge. There have been a couple of BPC’s in the US, but this was the first in Europe – as it showed with a great attendance of around 450 people. Lightning Tools were there with a stand and we had a chance to speak to lots of people about what we do and the values of the BDC.
This was also the first chance Rob, Brett and I had been in the same room since starting the SharePointPodshow – so we had a few drinks and a bit of banter to catch up on!
Rob and I did a couple of joint presentations on Business Value from SharePoint and the Business Data Catalog (of course). This was the first time I did a joint presentation and although I enjoyed it (and it felt like a podshow!) I don’t think we were as prepared (or practised) as we should have been. If you have any comments or feedback on them I’d be keen to hear it.
It was great to see a number of the US SharePoint MVPs at the show. Wondering around London was good fun as I never pay much attention to the tourist sights but to see others get excited kind of spurred me on.
The whole three days would have been perfect other than the football on Wednesday night! I reckon Liverpool can pull off something special on Tuesday though.
Well done to Steve, Zoe and the rest of the CK crew for organizing a great event.